Are you excited about working directly with Microsoft customers and partners to ensure success as they move forward with cloud computing? Do you want to be part of an engineering team that is looking to get a new service off the ground? If so, keep reading!

We are the FastTrack for Azure (FTA) team - a customer success service to help customers confidently design and implement Azure solutions by getting them on the right track to “build it right, architect it right, the first time”. FastTrack for Azure takes a solution-centric approach and provides customers with Engineering resources, best practices, tools and resources that drive Azure usage.

We are looking for analytical, communicative and high energy FastTrack for Azure Engineers with a passion for Azure Infrastructure Services in general and Azure VMware Solution in particular. These Engineers will be focused on working with large enterprise customers to successfully deliver complex migration projects and drive future product enhancements based on customer feedback and learnings.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• You will partner with program managers and service delivery teams to plan, architect and guide complex infrastructure deployments and migrations for large enterprise customers, moving customers from on-premises VMware environments to Azure VMware Solution.
• You will work directly with customer application, infrastructure, and security stakeholders to define requirements, strategy and processes for successful design, deployment & migrations.
• Provide direct feedback from customers to Azure VMware Solution product engineering teams to drive product improvements or escalate blocking issues.
• Partner with Azure Engineering domain experts to scope, build, and document customer solutions.
• Maintain knowledge of the latest on Azure/Cloud innovations in order to conduct experiments, drive product improvement, and act as subject matter trainer for other specialists.
• Interact daily with other FastTrack for Azure Engineers to provide technical action plans or take ownership of situations that require escalation.
• Share knowledge with others through solution documents, engage technical communities, build automated self-help solutions and create training.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Successful Candidate Competencies:

• Relevant experience in architecting and designing data center and cloud infrastructures using VMware and Microsoft technologies
• Knowledge and implementation experience designing and developing solutions using VMware’s Core Cloud Infrastructure
• [Required] VMware vSphere 6.0 and above
• [Required] VMware NSX-T network virtualization technologies
• NSX edge services (DNS, DHCP, Gateway Firewall, Distributed Firewall)
• NSX implementation
• NSX migration from vlan or NSX-v
• [Required] VMware vSAN
• [Required] VMware HCX Advanced & Enterprise
• [Preferred] VMware Site Recovery Manager & vSphere Replication
• [Preferred] VMware management suite (vCD, vROps, vRNI, vRLI)
• Experience with on-premises-to-Cloud or cloud-to-cloud migrations with VMware HCX
• Experience with relevant Azure technologies like:
• [Required] Azure ExpressRoute and Azure VPN
• [Required] Azure Virtual WAN and Azure Route Server
• [Required] Azure networking
• [Preferred] Azure Disk Pools and Azure NetApp Files
• [Preferred] Azure Monitoring and Security technologies (Monitor, Arc, Security Center)
• [Preferred] 3rd party network virtual appliances (firewalls, load-balancers, routers) for Azure and VMware environments
• Experience and good understanding of any leading cloud management systems and solutions.
• Strong core platform architecture concepts including hardware platform, hypervisor, Networking, security, data protection, high availability, monitoring & alerting, patching etc.
• Familiarity with security & compliance standards across a variety of enterprise IT landscapes.
• Experience with Azure Hosting or Infrastructure background and public cloud highly desired.
• A good understanding of datacenter networking fabric topologies and common architectures deployed, both Layer 2 and Layer 3 based is highly desired
• Strong presentation, influencing and communication skills.

Education Qualifications

• BS or postgraduate degree in Computer Science or technology-focused discipline or equivalent experience
• VCDX-DCV/CMA certification is preferred but not required
• CCDP, CCNP, VCP-NV certification is preferred but not required.

Desired Qualifications:

Experience working with enterprise customers on Azure specific solutions, application development and deployment.

Ability to communicate effectively with corporate customers, possess an understanding of the onboarding process and demonstrate a vision for the future.

Excellent customer service skills, good oral and written communication skills, proven ability to handle difficult and sensitive situations involving the most critical and politically charged customer situations, to lead projects and to motivate others.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent work experience.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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